Li Qian (; born 6 June 1990) is a Chinese boxer. She won the bronze medal in the women's middleweight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal in the same event at the delayed

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

Career

Li was born in

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

. She and her parents moved to

Ordos Ordos may refer to: Inner Mongolia * Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China **Ordos Ejin Horo Airport * Ordos Loop of the Yellow River, a region of China **Ordos Plateau or "the Ordos", land enclosed by Ordos Loop *Ordos Desert, in Inner Mongolia *Ordos ...

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

in 2001. While studying at the Inner Mongolia Vocational College of Physical Education, she played

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

. Her height and arm length drew the attention of Chinese boxing team coach Ha Dabater, who recommended her for the Inner Mongolian boxing team in 2007. She won the bronze medal in the women's middleweight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won a silver medal in the middleweight event at the delayed

, losing to Lauren Price in the final.

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* 1990 births Living people People from Ordos City Sportspeople from Inner Mongolia Sportspeople from Henan Chinese women boxers Olympic boxers of China Boxers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic bronze medalists for China Olympic medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in boxing Boxers at the 2014 Asian Games Middleweight boxers Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Boxers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for China 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-boxing-bio-stub